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Thirty Day Challenge 2009

This years Thirty Day Challenge started on the first of August. If you make money online you should really take part in it. This is day twelve of the challenge, but you can sign up any time and go through the lessons at your own pace.

If you took part in a previous Thirty Day Challenge you should still take part. I completed the course last year and the approach they take hasn't changed a lot. What has changed is the maturity of the software they recommend.

Last year they introduced two new software tools. One was Market Samurai for doing market research to discover potential markets. The other was WordPress Direct, a method of deploying wordpress blogs very quickly and easily. WPD also had tools built in to help the user find content and videos which could be adapted and published on the blogs. To tell you the truth, I wasn't that impressed with WordPressdirect last year simply because I've been using wordpress for years, I'm fluent in PHP, so the advantage wasn't that great for me personally.

Fast forward one year. Now there are three main weapons in the arsenal:

• WordPressdirect
• Market Samurai
• Traffic Bug - this is the new one.

Both WPD and Market Samurai have matured tremendously. I posted an article several months ago about Market Samurai's evolution and the process has continued. WordPressdirect has added features so that I now use it automatically for new blogs. Traffic-bug is a program to announce new sites to the world and build backlinks. Having done that process manually up until now, I know how tedious it can be.

What I notice most this year isn't just how the tools have evolved. The really impressive thing is the synergy between them. Market Samurai is now hooked up with WordPressdirect in a very robust way that makes both tools much more powerful. Traffic-bug is also tied in with the other two. All these tools are great in their own right, but the linkage between them creates a true marketing monster.

I keep writing about the Thirty Day Challenge simply because I believe it to be a shining example of integrity and value. They always deliver more than they promise and what they teach is gold. I'm sure everyone makes money in the long run, but they do it by providing solid value now instead of by peddling vaporware that you have to have now but can't really use until the next upgrade (which you pay extra for).

Funny thing, though. Even after being a part of the Thirty Day Challenge for two years there is still a little trace of the cynic inside me that is looking for the trick, watching for the bait-and-switch, holding on tight to my wallet so I don't get sucked into some ploy that will cost me some multiple of a thousand dollars. That cynic has been around too long to believe that anybody in the internet marketing world could simply do what they say and give it away free or at a nominal cost.

These guys do, and what they offer just keeps getting better. So thanks to everyone involved, not just for the knowledge and the products but also for the example you provide.